For his New Year's resolution, the 34-year-old founder will host a "series of public discussions about the future of technology in society" with leaders, experts, and "people in our community from different fields." Zuckerberg announced the plan in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

"There are so many big questions about the world we want to live in and technology's place in it," Zuckerberg wrote, adding that the discussions will be available for viewing on Facebook, Instagram, or other platforms. "Do we want technology to keep giving more people a voice, or will traditional gatekeepers control what ideas can be expressed?"

The questions Zuckerberg wants answered, such as how artificial intelligence can be used to create jobs and how the tech industry can maintain a steady pace of innovation, have been debated in the public sphere for years. So there's reason to be skeptical that they can be resolved in the next 12 months. By Zuckerberg's own admission, it's going to take years to fulfill his 2018 resolution to fix Facebook.

Still, the resolution creates an opportunity to have meaningful, nuanced conversations about technology's role in the world. And it could have a useful personal and professional impact on Zuckerberg himself, who admitted in his post that he's not really comfortable in the public spotlight. "I'm an engineer, and I used to just build out my ideas and hope they'd mostly speak for themselves," he wrote. "Given the importance of what we do, that doesn't cut it anymore."

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